Sentences with phrase «modigliani came to auction»

It was the largest flawless white diamond ever to come to auction when sold for $ 33.7 million at Christie's in Geneva last November, but experts said at the time the price showed the top end of the diamond...

At least 25 examples of the 300SL Gullwing came to auction in 1986, and not all of them sold.

The car will come to auction with a fresh MoT Certificate and is very sensibly guided considering its rarity and provenance.These last 53 Limited Edition cars are arguably the most collectable of the 21,589 Turbos built over the models 14 - year life and this fabulous Baltic Blue example represents an exclusive and exhilarating ownership proposition.]-RSB-

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The kennel owners love to see rescue people come to the auctions because they drive up the prices.

It «s also an undocumented promotional item according to the Videogame Memorabilia Museum forum, and it has never come to auction.

Our top lot Norman Lewis» «Block Island» was his first 1970s oil on canvas to come to auction.

Steve is an important work by the artist, and only the second of his «white on white» series of paintings to come to auction.

ONLY THREE WORKS by Njideka Akunyili Crosby have come to auction and they have all been record breakers.

According to Swann, «This outstanding 1930s painting is a wonderful discovery — the first artwork by this painter and muralist to come to auction.

Only two works from this series have come to auction in the last 20 years and each time they established a new record for the artist and a new benchmark for European art.

Plus: London Art Week Helena Newman to chair Sotheby's Europe Bowie Collection comes to auction Timothy Taylor Goes Stateside

We are lucky to have one of these examples because they very rarely come to auction.

As an exceptional Turner watercolour comes to auction on 30 January, art critic Alastair Sooke and specialist Harriet Drummond explore the Turner Bequest

The work is the first non-sculpture work by the artist to come to auction, and another work by the artist, a sculpture made of black marble titled Recognition, was also a top seller for $ 125,000.

One of 29 recorded paintings of London that Derain painted across 1906 and 1907, it comes to auction alongside the exhibition «Impressionists and London» currently on view at London's Tate Britain.

This beautiful, Impressionist landscape is the earliest and most significant oil painting by Allan Freelon to come to auction.

Her structure Untitled (from the Point as a Set series), is one of the finest examples of works from her Point as a Set series to come to auction, as well as Sonia Gechtoff's (1926 - 2018) Untitled (# 4), Untitled (# 3), Untitled (# 5), 1960, which realized $ 15,000, a new world auction record for the artist.»

This outstanding 1930s painting is a wonderful discovery - the first artwork by this painter and muralist to come to auction.

She also noted that while many pundits have predicted a shift to private sales, the Picasso and Modigliani came to auction «in this year and this market.»

Eleven years later, the first of Eric Clapton's Richters to come to auction achieved a world - record price for the artist when it realised # 21.3 million.

Thom Pegg describes the painting «Just Business» by Walter W. Ellison as the Georgia - born, Chicago artist's most important work to come to auction.

Pegg describes Lot 506, «Just Business» by Walter Ellison (1900 - 1977) as the Georgia - born, Chicago artist's most important work to come to auction.

An exciting week is ahead of us, when it comes to auctions.

The Polke is matched by a Christopher Wool painting also estimated at $ 20m that is the family's second major work by the artist to come to the auction block.

It was at this time — the early to mid-Nineties — that Saville produced many of her most significant works, including The Bride and Cindy, both of which come to auction at Christie's this autumn.

The largest painting from the 1970s by Zao Wou - Ki and among the top 10 largest by the artist to ever come to auction, 04.01.79 has never before been publicly offered.

Swann states that the lot is only the second painting by Catlett to come to auction.

Leading the selection is one of the most important works to come to the auction market by David Hockney, Beverly Hills Housewife, (estimate: $ 7 - 10 million), 1966 - 1967.

Colin Gleadell spies the works from Charles Saatchi's legendary Sensation exhibition that are coming to auction in London, including two works by the Chapman brothers and a very large work by Glenn Brown based upon a Dali painting of Christ:

As previously reported here, only three works by Akunyili Crosby have come to auction and they have all been record breakers, each exponentially surpassing the price reached by the previous lot.

If an important Stettheimer came to auction, said Elizabeth Beaman, head of the American art department at Christie's, «I think we would see an unbelievable response.»

Adam Hutter, founder of Hutter Auction Galleries, comes to the auction industry with his own unique perspective.

If a very rare piece of art comes to auction that has not been seen in the public for years, there will most likely be a bidding frenzy, causing the prices to soar.»

Double Dutch, from Ringgold's well - known Woman on a Bridge series, is only the second of her signature story quilts to come to auction; the first, Maya's Quilt of Life, sold at Swann last September for $ 461,000 as part of the Art Collection of Maya Angelou.

Two notable sculptures by artist and activist, Elizabeth Catlett, come to auction from the esteemed collection of her personal friend and Civil Rights pioneer, the Reverend Douglas Moore and his...

The artist's Portrait of a Boy, oil on canvas, 1938, one of Lee - Smith's earliest works to come to auction, sold for $ 42,500.

The charcoal drawing is the first from the series to come to auction.

This caused a stir not only because the plate - painting, Notre Dame (1979) doubled its $ 50,000 high estimate, selling for $ 93,500; nor because it was significantly more expensive than Schnabel's primary market prices (which were between $ 25,000 and $ 60,000); nor because this was almost ten times the price of work by Schnabel's peers (which cost around $ 10,000 at the time); but also because it was so rare for such recent work to come to auction in the first place.

Andy Warhol's Sixty Last Suppers from 1986 — an outstanding example from the artist's great final painting series, and the largest painting by the American Pop artist ever to come to auction — sold for $ 60,875,000.

What's more, constituting the most significant work by Brown ever to come to auction, The Tragic Conversion of Salvador Dalí (After John Martin) not only stands at the very apotheosis of the artist's extraordinary corpus of monumental sci - fi panoramas but also ranks as perhaps the most magnificent work of Glenn Brown's entire creation.

According to the New York auction house, it is only the second double body print by the artist to come to auction.

The top lot of the night was «No. 21 (Red, Brown, Black and Orange),» an almost 8 - foot - tall 1951 painting by Rothko that had previously never come to auction.

This will be the first time that one of Dupuy - Spencer's paintings has ever come to auction, so it will be a test.

On the heels of that opening, a work by Owens, who was born in 1970, came to auction at Sotheby's postwar and contemporary evening sale with a high estimate of $ 300,000 and was bought for nearly twice that amount, selling, with a premium, for $ 1.755 million.

Museum shows are no guarantee that an artist's work will take off; in the year 2012, when Taylor had a solo show at MoMA PS1 in New York, not a single one of his paintings came to auction, according to Artnet.

Over two days, three of the painter's lush oil paintings depicting fictional black characters came to auction at Sotheby's.

A further highlight is Gerhard Richter's monumental canvas Abstraktes Bild from 1989, arguably the greatest Richter abstract ever to come to auction and painted at the high point of the artist's abstract period (1988 - 1992).

A group of 21 works, estimated at $ 1.2 m - $ 1.7 m, from the Manhattan home of the legendary postwar critic Clement Greenberg and his wife, Jenny, come to auction at Christie's in New York on May 11.

Without authentication — it is unsigned — Cooper's Warhol is unlikely to make quite so much should it ever come to auction.